Monday, February 15, 2010

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics - Geotagged Videos #vancouver #olympics #googlemaps

Here's a map I put together of Geotagged YouTube Videos which show the reporting from around the world on Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.

There are forward and back buttons below the video which will take you to the next or previous videos.

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Friday, February 12, 2010

Winter Olympic tweets from Vancouver and elsewhere #vancouver #googlemaps

UMapper has created a cool Google Maps + Twitter mashup of tweets from Winter Olympics 2010 which is underway at Vancouver B.C. When you pan around, the map shows the latest tweets from the current map view










And here's a Google Maps Mashup I created which shows you Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic tweets from Eastern/Western Canada, Eastern/Western United States, Europe and Australia. Select the region (radio buttons) on the map from where you want to view the tweets from.

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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Tweets Mapped - #vancouver #olympics #googlemaps

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics starts tomorrow February 12th, 2010. There will be a lot activity on Twitter related to this event. I have created a Google Maps Mashup of Vancouver Olympic Tweets. This mashup shows tweets from Western/Eastern Canada, Western/Eastern United States, Europe and Australia. Select the region (radio buttons) on the map from where you want to view the tweets from.

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Thursday, August 28, 2008

A swarm of earthquakes off of British Columbia Coast

Just saw this breaking news on CNN that "A Magnitude 6.1 Earthquake has rocked Vancouver Island, Canada". CNN did not have more details so I checked out Google News and came across this from Winnipeg Sun:
There’s a whole lot of shaking going on off the west coast of Vancouver Island.
Here's more info from US Geological Survey website:

All the latest Earthquake information (Google Maps Mashup)

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